Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954 - 1963 Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Taylor Branch
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the waitress pour over Lewis?
(a) Gravy
(b) Cream
(c) Water
(d) Orange juice

2. Who has dinner with the Freedom Riders when they arrive in Atlanta?
(a) Mike King
(b) Malcolm X
(c) Robert Kennedy
(d) Martin Luther King

3. What did W.E.B Du Bois found?
(a) The NAACP
(b) The NCCG
(c) The RSPCA
(d) The SCCP

4. What do the Alabama police charge King with?
(a) Murder
(b) Speeding
(c) Perjury
(d) Tax evasion

5. What does Crozier Theological Seminary have in its basement rec room?
(a) A science lab
(b) Pool tables
(c) Dart boards
(d) Computers

6. What was Coretta Scott hoping to become after college?
(a) An actress
(b) A housewife
(c) A classical singer
(d) A song writer

7. Who does John Kennedy offer his support to in this chapter?
(a) Coretta King
(b) Rustin
(c) Levin
(d) Moses

8. Who does Nixon choose as his running mate?
(a) Henry Kissinger
(b) Lyndon Johnson
(c) Gerald Ford
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge

9. What do the courts accuse King of not paying taxes for?
(a) Income earned from writing
(b) Income earned from preaching
(c) Income earned from Civil Rights work
(d) Income earned from lecturing

10. Which of the following countries does Mike King not visit on his trip abroad?
(a) Italy
(b) France
(c) Germany
(d) Romania

11. What does the Ku Klux Klan burn in front of John's lawn?
(a) A photograph
(b) A sweater
(c) A kitten
(d) A cross

12. What member of Farmer's family dies in this chapter?
(a) His mother
(b) His son
(c) His father
(d) His daughter

13. What is Burke Marshall appointed head of?
(a) SNCC
(b) The KKK
(c) The Civil Rights Division
(d) NAACP

14. Who is the governor of Arkansas?
(a) Robert Kennedy
(b) Jack Marshall
(c) Orval Faubus
(d) James Formby

15. Who does Kennedy select as his running mate?
(a) Robert Kennedy
(b) Lyndon Johnson
(c) James Fox
(d) Jimmy Carter

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Robert Kennedy telephone in this chapter?

2. What was King given a twelve-month suspended sentence for?

3. What did a group of Negroes form in 1867?

4. Who does Robert Kennedy fear racial tension will make USA appear weak to?

5. What does King study in his father's house in this chapter?

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